The 44-year-old tour guide from Seattle, who was arrested in November 2012, has been found guilty of "hostile acts" by the rogue state. He will be interned in a camp for foreigners, and is expected to be used by the Kim regime to force concessions out of the U.S.

Four months after his visit to North Korea, Google's chairman talks about how new technology can provide autocrats with some pretty nasty tools. No amount of surveillance cameras and face-recognition technology, however, can beat courage and the desire for freedom, he says.